Join Daniel Norton OnSet as he shows you how to create one of the most requested types of portraits from commercial photographers, clean white backgrounds. “Blowing out” your background while still maintaining contrast on your subject and overcoming the softness that minor lens flare can cause, to create some beautiful and simple portraits.
SUBSCRIBE AND BE PART OF THE ADORAMA FAMILY:
➥
__________________________________
✘ PRODUCTS USED:
Savage 53” Super White seamless paper:
Profoto B1x:
Profoto Beauty Dish:
Profoto Grid for Beauty Dish:
✘ PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT USED:
Sling Studio Multi-Cam:
Sony A6500:
Sony 18-105 f4:
Zoom H4N:
Sennheiser ew 112 P G4 microphone:
#whitebackground #studioportraits #adorama
__________________________________
❐ LET’S GET SOCIAL ❏
➥ Facebook
➥ Instagram
➥ Twitter
❐ MORE ADORAMA ❏
➥ Podcast
➥ Blog
➥ Shop
__________________________________
If you enjoyed “Portraits on clean white background: OnSet ep. #279”
and need help for video, we suggest watching “How to get a WHITE background – OnSet ep. 07”
Be sure to follow Erica:
Be sure to follow Daniel Norton:
__________________________________
THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING!
Comments
37 responses to “Portraits on clean white background: OnSet ep. #279”
Fantastic………….2years after!
Learned a couple things. Thanks.
Simple and easy. Now let's see if I can replicate this with square LED panels with barn doors. I don't know….but…??!!!
Great video as always. Would you ever use LED lights (continuous) to light the background? Thanks
How would I check for 255 in LR?
What’s the photo editing app in his computer?
Thanks again for AWESOME workshops!
Suprb very use full
I never thought of the opposite corners light! Very helpful! Always have loved how Daniel teaches.
So pleased I found this video, excellent tips especially about pointing the lights at opposite sides of the background. Cheers!
Thank You Daniel for keeping it simple I am still very much a beginner but learning with your guidance , next model shoot will be so much better Thank You
Daniel, if your flash is blowing out the background and you are already at lowest power (1/128 on a speedlight, fro example) and are still getting flare with nowhere else to go, does that mean the next step is to close down the aperture? Thanks!
Once again.. really timely. I kinda hate shooting on white.. mostly because I don't do it well. But I got up in the studio last week to try and work it out. Sooner or later (probably sooner), someone's gonna want a white background. My result was.. okay. But I thought it lacked contrast. They always do. Now I might know why. I will be trying again tonight. Thanks Daniel! (and Erica 😉 )
can you please do a video on different ways to use grip equipment on set, i.e c stands flags bounce and arms for holding heads?
If you wanted the blouse to be as white as the background or at least closer and the light to stay the same on her face, how would you address that?
Wow …. The most valuable tip for me was pointing the lights at opposite corners and it was almost a throw away comment but makes so much sense. You may have just solved an issue I have always had with making the white totally even. Can't thank you enough.
fab stuff great reminder of a little process to get things setup right – i often get myself in a hurry with clients and can leapfrog over things too swiftly
Brilliant, thanks Daniel
Thanks Daniel. Some Photo Judges deduct points for exceeding 250 White as they say that the image won't print properly above that. Have you ever had any feedback from Print labs to that effect?
<sigh> You are shooting digital. As long as your subject isn't white or wearing white (white as in a white object, not a Caucasian person) all you have to do is get pretty close to blown out white (or as we used to call it, base white). Somewhere around 3 to 3.5 stops over. At 4 stops you are skirting the edge of flare and loosing contrast in your subject. Since you are going to be in your editing software anyway its a simple matter to select the background and fill with 100% white. Problem solved. Oh, but wait. No one talked about wrap-around.
The light coming off the background has to be less (when metered at the subject) than the foreground lights or you'll get a white, blown out halo around your subject. Yes, the background is a light source and on anything with texture there is some wrap around from lights coming from the rear. Product photographers frequently use this to put defined edges on dark subjects on a gray or neutral background. So, now you have a choice, dial down the background light, power up your key light, or pull the subject away from the background <remember, light falls off>. It also helps if you flag off as much background as you can and use a masked compendium type lens shade or flags to minimize lens flare. On white seamless, I don't know if they are even in business, but "white" was Studio Specialties 107 white.
Look at 5:00, you can see the flare on the back of the key light reflector and off to the right against the black boards. If you look carefully, you can also see the wrap around on the subject in the following shots also.
Which brings me to the biggest question. When is someone going to pay for a 2/3 or 3/4 shot of a person? When they are a celebrity, sure. Or someone looking for a head shot for their card or portfolio but other than that??? What is usually the subject (paid advertising) is what is ON the person. They are a living display rack. That means lighting for the MERCHANDISE. Wanna have some fun? Try shooting black furs on a Caucasian model against a white background. Have fun, that's a tight rope to get detail in the fur, not blow out the model and fight the flare. (hint, yes, it can be done). Cheers!
Very informative
Thanks for the video. Does your process change at all if the intention is printing?
Perfect!! Thats what I need to learn to do. Thank you.
Sorry I'm new to studio lights. What's the 254/255 you free to? Can you point me to another video I may have missed. Thanks so much.
Kick ass! dood!
Yay! I have that same lens!!
Great demo. Thx!
If i want the hair to be more defined, what i need to do?
Great video, as usual! 👍🏼
Thanks, Daniel and Erica. That's a nice look.
I see how you place the cursor over the background using Capture One and it gives a reading. Is that possible with Light room Classic, I just never really looked. For lighting teams I will just take like three light meter readings across where the group will stand and see if I get the same f stop. Thanks Adorama for these videos, shop there frequently and looking at a Nikon 300mm FD lens there.
This is too funny. Awful looking final photo. Nowadays everybody calls himself, or herself, an expert professional photographer.
Nice set up, i guess if you did not have a beauty dish a silver umbrella will do the trick. Nice to see Erica, Thanks Daniel and Erica.
Thanks Daniel, but you need to pay Erica more money so she doesn't need to wear jeans with holes in the knees 😉
Great video, Daniel! How long is the paper backdrop roll you’re using?
Where was that first black picture? LOL Thanks for the demo
Oh wow great video, Daniel Norton is very good at showing and explaining lighting! I will dare say since you guys at ADORAMA have so much gear at many price points that even on a budget with the Flashpoint Budget Studio Monolight this can be done. Thanks ADORAMA for all the great and informative videos on your channel!